Effectiveness of a Counselling Programme Based on Behavioural Cognitive Theory in Enhancing Marital Adjustment among a Sample of New Wives in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate

Abstract

The study aims to survey the effectiveness of a collective mentorship program based on behavioral cognitive theory to enhance the marital adjustment skills among a sample of new wives in Ramallah and al-Bireh. The study community of all the new wives in the first five years of marriage working in Ministry of Education in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate and the number, (80) Wives of 2018, according to statistics provided to the two researcher from the Ministry of Education in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, the sample of the study is made up of (32) wives who has obtained the lowest degrees of marital adjustment skills. The study sample is randomly distributed to two equal groups, experimental and control group, with 16 wives in each group. The measure of marital adjustment is used in the study and then the two researcher develop it in accordance with the Palestinian environment and the objectives of the study. The two researcher prepare a mentoring program based on behavioral cognitive theory, and the mentoring program is applied to the experimental group with 10 sessions at a rate of 90minutes per session. The results of the study shows statistically significant differences on the marital adjustment scale between the experimental group and the control group. After the application of the pilot program for the experimental group, the results show that there are statistically significant differences between the average grades of the experimental group on the measure of marital adjustment before and after the application of the program, and in favor of dimensional measurement on the experimental group, as shown by the results of the tracking measurement the continuation of the impact of the indicative program.